An international adventure with mystery, intrigue, murder and the cunning skill of UNDYING. A plot to lure the killer of Andre s father. The first reverberating jump of Andre s chest catches the Grand Master off guard, almost knocking him off the wooden staircase. Quickly he recovers and continues to hold the hot branding iron in place against the young man s chest. Smoke from the searing flesh drifts slowly up into the ceiling of the ancient Chinese Shaolin temple. Late one misty night at the General Hospital in San Francisco, Maji and Doshi secretly enters a patient s room. It s pitch dark except for the blinking lights on the life support machine. Andre lies motionless on the bed. Using the sonar traits of a bat he acquired from a Indian medicine man in North Dakota, the young man watches every move they make. He prepares to defend himself. "